Form Quotes

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.